Wrapped up day one of an offsite here in Seattle. Now off to a team building event at a cooking school. Which means I’ll likely be eating a second dinner after politely pushing the one we make around my plate.

[article] 5 Signs Your One-on-Ones Aren’t Working. There was chatter on Twitter/X a couple weeks back about high performers not needing 1:1s with their managers. I strongly disagree, but these meetings also need to be useful. This article has good advice for getting on track.

[article] What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part II). I shared “part 1” of this series in last week’s reading list, and part 2 is excellent too. This one is chock full of strategic advice for working with LLMs.

[blog] Let’s make Gemini Groovy! Can you get Gemini 1.5 Flash to execute a Groovy script as part of a “function calling” exercise? Apparently you an.

[blog] Google Cloud Artifact Registry Goes Limitless with Generic Format Support. I like Artifact Registry as a service for storing operating system and application packages. But no service supports every possible package type. Offering a “generic” type is smart here.

[blog] Anomaly detection with few labeled samples under distribution mismatch. I like that this is open source and now widely available. Use it for anomaly detection in data sets.

[blog] The Kubernetes ecosystem is a candy store. Kubernetes is 10 years old, and has a healthy ecosystem that the community should be proud of.

[article] Everyone Wants to Ditch the Middleman. Or Do They? This article walks through some new research into whether consumers are going direct for services or still using an intermediary.

[blog] Reading Google Sheets from a Go program. I remember the old days of trying to parse Microsoft Office objects in code. Not fun. These SaaS platforms are so much easier to interact with.

[blog] Creating a Bespoke Platform as a Service: History Doesn’t Repeat, but It Often Rhymes. Most everyone has SOME sort of platform that underpins their work. Daniel looks at what folks consider using, and why a new crop of tooling looks promising.

[blog] Introducing the Google Developer Program: Unlock New Opportunities. Lots of perks, and no cost to this program. Take a look.

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